I made a mistake and didn't intend to post my response to your message for
the list. It was returned without checking the sender address (which isn't
displayed on my mail browser) and on the basis of our earlier off-list
exchange and hence never intended for xmca to begin with. I agree with
everything you say in your last post and intend my previous post to be
considered in the light of a personal exchange of information, not as a
public endorsement concerning the quality or extent of the feminist writings
included in andy blunden's website.
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: nate <schmolze who-is-at students.wisc.edu>
To: xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Date: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: Women and Marxism
>Darwin or Stalin were not what I had in mind. I was thinking along the
>lines of Katherine Brown's "invitation" post in which the question of
>Marxism in Russia surfaced. Also, with the past xcma discussions on
>international women's day and Krupskaya the site seemed like it would be of
>interest. The particular subject "women and marxism" is a new addition to
>the site, so I assume it will become more developed over time. Darwin and
>Stalin are included in the spirit of critique. As for the other males
>their inclusion is for their advocacy of women's liberation in their times
>such as Mao.
>
>Mao Tse Tung
>
>"A man in China is usually subjected to the domination of three systems of
>authority [political authority, clan authority and religious authority] . .
>. . As for women, in addition to being dominated by these three systems of
>authority, they are also dominated by the men (the authority of the
>husband). These four authorities--political, clan, religious and
>masculine--are the embodiment of the whole feudal-patriarchal system and
>ideology, and are the four thick ropes binding the Chinese people,
>particularly the peasants."
>
>
>Clara Zetkin
>Born in Germany and leader of the international women's movement. For
>twenty seven years the editor of Die Gleichheit [Equality]. Member of the
>German Social Democratic party. Long time comrade of Rosa Luxemburg, but
>they differed over women's emancipation of which Zetkin was an advocate.
>http://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/zetkin/index.htm
>
>Nadezhada K. Krupskaya
>Krupskaya was a Russian revolutionary, writer, educator and Secretary of
>the Bolshevik Faction of the Social Democratic Party. Wife and advisor to
>V.I. Lenin. Secretary to the Board of Iskra beginning in 1901. In 1917,
>Inessa Armand, Clara Zetkin, and N. K. Krupskaya pressured Russian
>officials to sanction International Women's Day.
>http://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/krup/index.htm
>
>
>Raya Dunayevskaya
>Dunayevskaya emigrated to the U.S. from Russia in 1922. After many years in
> activist politics she became a Trotyskist, but later broke with Trotsky
>over the Russia question. She was a founder of the Johnson-Forest Tendency
>along with C.L.R. James. Later, she was a founder and long-time leader of
>the News and Letters Committees, a group that centered on the ideas of of
>Marxist-Humanism.
>http://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/raya/index.htm
>
>Alexandra KOLLONTAI
>Born Aleksandra M. Domontovich, Kollontai became a Russian revolutionary,
>diplomat, speaker, and writer. Led the "Workers' Opposition" that opposed
>party and government control of trade unions against Lenin in 1921.
>Kollontai was the first woman to hold the rank of minister to Norway in
>1923.
>http://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/index.htm
>
>
>Nate
>
>